- Our College shall consider application for admission to the Fellowship of the Hong Kong College of Radiologists on the basis of the following criteria.
- The applicant shall be a resident in Hong Kong, shall show documentary proof of genuine full-time practice in the respective discipline of radiology in Hong Kong, and shall hold a valid and current Practicing Certificate issued by The Medical Council of Hong Kong.
- The applicant shall have
- passed the Joint Final Fellowship Examinations (held jointly by the Hong Kong College of Radiologists and The Royal College of Radiologists) in respect of the specialties of Radiology and Clinical Oncology, or the Final Fellowship Examination in Nuclear Medicine of the Hong Kong College of Radiologists in respect of the specialty of Nuclear Medicine;
- completed not less than six years of approved post-registration (full registration) supervised training, of which not less than five years of training are full-time clinical work in the discipline of radiology he is pursuing;
- completed not less than two years of Higher Training after passing the Joint Final Fellowship Examination in respect of the specialties of Radiology and Clinical Oncology, or the Final Fellowship Examination in Nuclear Medicine of the Hong Kong College of Radiologists in respect of the specialty of Nuclear Medicine;
- undertaken the full training period in training centres accredited by the Hong Kong College of Radiologists; and
- been assessed by the Education Committee, through Exit Assessment on completion of training, to be a fully trained and professionally qualified medical doctor for practice in the specialty.
- For special circumstances pertaining to criterion 2 in respect of the specialties of Radiology and Clinical Oncology, applicants with a recognized international qualification obtained by examination, after passing a "Special Examination" organized by the Hong Kong College of Radiologists, shall be recognized as equivalent to passing the Joint Final Fellowship Examination. For such applicants, the date of possessing the recognized international qualification will be regarded as the effective date for the commencement of the required Higher Training as stipulated in 2(c). Before applying for the Exit Assessment, they are required i) to attend all mandatory lectures of our College; ii) to have at least one project be accepted at our College scientific meetings, or regional/international scientific conferences as the oral presenter or first author of a poster presentation; and iii) to have at least one radiological/oncological/nuclear medicine article as the first author must be published/accepted for publication in the Journal of our College or other indexed medical journals. Recognition of post-examination supervised higher training undertaken in institutions in overseas countries, and exemption from any part of mandatory lectures, shall be considered on individual basis upon formal application, and to be endorsed by the Council of Hong Kong College of Radiologists. In addition, such applicant must become a Member or an Associate Member of Hong Kong College of Radiologists for at least one year prior to their Exit Assessment.
- For a broad knowledge-based exposure in the specialty of Radiology, the two years of Higher Training should consist of minimum of 6 months full time General Radiology; minimum of two Category A subspecialty subjects (well-recognized radiology subspecialties including Breast Radiology, Thoracic Radiology, Gastrointestinal Radiology, Genitourinary Radiology, Head & Neck Radiology, Interventional & Vascular Radiology, Musculoskeletal Radiology, Neuroradiology and Paediatric Radiology), of which one subject should be of 6-month duration; and remaining period of Higher Training in General Radiology, Category A subspecialty subjects, Category B subspecialty subjects (technique-based subspecialties including Ultrasonography, CT, MRI and Radionuclide Imaging) or Category C subspecialty subjects (subjects related to clinical subspecialties particularly strong at a hospital, for instance, Transplantation Radiology, Intensive Care Imaging, Oncologic Radiology).
- Only doctors with very special circumstances, and with justification and full documentation of such circumstances, may have applications accepted for individual consideration by the Hong Kong College of Radiologists.
- This document shall take precedence over all other documents on Fellowship Admission Criteria of our College issued prior to the date of the current document.
- The College reserves the right of amending the admission criteria without prior notice.
(Approved on 3 March 2016 and effective from 1 April 2016)